Childhood Cancer Awareness
At The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, we devote countless resources to pediatric cancer research. We invest in the most cutting-edge technology and offer the most advanced therapies for all types of childhood cancer. But it is not enough. In 2012, close to 11,000 children will be diagnosed with cancer, and 1,300 will die of the disease. And although survival rates for many childhood cancers have improved dramatically over the past few decades, cancer is still the second leading cause of death in children.
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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
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While September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, at CHOP we work all year long to help build awareness about this disease; to build appreciation and understanding, support, research funding, all with the goal of ultimately finding a cure. It's a job we can't do alone, and we thank you for being part of this very important work.
The Facts about Childhood Cancer
- Every school day 46 kids are diagnosed with pediatric cancer.
- Close to 11,000 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer each year.
- Each year, approximately 650 children are diagnosed with neuroblastoma in the U.S. Find out more about neuroblastoma.
- Each year, 3,750 children are diagnosed with a brain tumor in the U.S.
- There are more than 350,000 childhood cancer survivors in the U.S.
- Studies have shown that children's survival rates are raised by 20 to 40 percent if their cancer care is coordinated by pediatric oncologists and delivered at comprehensive, multidisciplinary cancer centers that follow established clinical trial protocols. Search all the clinical trials at CHOP.
- Children’s hospitals and pediatric departments of university medical centers account for 35 percent of all NIH-funded pediatric research. Learn how to advocate for pediatric cancer research funding.
- Pediatric cancer research by CHOP physicians has shown that in the 40 percent of retinoblastoma patients who inherited a predisposition to develop the disease, chemotherapy prevents tumors from forming in the pineal gland, located at the center of the brain.
- Autologous stem cell transplantation may cure up to 40 percent of children with neuroblastoma.
- Proton therapy targets radiation directly to the tumor site, reducing the harm to surrounding healthy tissues and organs. CHOP’s proton therapy center, a collaboration with Penn Medicine, is the first in the mid-Atlantic region and one of the largest in the world.
- Clinical trials are among the fastest and safest ways to find treatments that work against cancer. Philanthropic support is critical to this work because it costs more to treat patients on new drug trials than insurance will reimburse.
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